Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Lost Mongolian Section of "Great Wall" Located

Google Earth has helped an international expedition
locate a 60-mile forgotten section of the Great Wall of China in southern
Mongolia.

The defensive barrier formed part of the Great Wall
system built by successive Chinese dynasties to repel Mongol invaders from the
north, according to findings published in the March issue of the Chinese
edition of National Geographic magazine.

Preserved to a height of 9 feet (2.75 meters) in
places, the desert discovery belongs to a sequence of remnant walls in Mongolia
collectively known as the Wall of Genghis Khan, said expedition leader and
Great Wall researcher William Lindesay.

Named after the founder of the Mongol Empire, the
Wall of Genghis Khan usually survives only as "a faint trace,"
Lindesay said in an email. But "we found a 'real wall', standing high and
existing as a dominant landscape feature," he said.

The section wasn't the work of Genghis Khan or
his heirs but actually a long-lost segment of the Great Wall of China network,
the team's findings suggest.

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